A Garrard County, Kentucky woman who still faces rape charges for allegedly having sex with a 15 year-old boy in Garrard County has pleaded guilty to a related charge in Madison County.

Christina Miracle, 35, pleaded guilty earlier this month on the eve of her trial in Madison Circuit Court to third-degree rape for having sex with the boy at her Richmond apartment in the summer of 2007, said Madison County Commonwealth’s Attorney David Smith.

The crime is a Class D felony, punishable by one to five years in prison. Smith will recommend Miracle serve a year in jail at her formal sentencing, scheduled for Dec. 10 before Judge Jean Logue.

“I finally said ‘enough.” We’re either going to have a trial or a guilty plea,” Smith said of the oft-delayed case.

It is not clear how the outcome of Miracle’s case in Madison County will impact her case in Garrard Circuit Court, where she is charged with five counts of third-degree rape involving the same boy in August and September of 2007.

“I’m not going to tell you what we’re going to do,” said Tom Lockridge, commonwealth’s attorney for Garrard County. “You’ll just have to be patient and wait to see what happens in court.”

Miracle was scheduled for trial in Garrard County on Oct. 6, but that case was postponed until after the Madison County case. She is next scheduled to appear in Garrard Circuit Court for a status hearing on Nov. 20.

According to court records in the Garrard case, Miracle admits on an audio taped conversation with the boy to having sexual relations with him. The tape was made by a Garrard County deputy with permission from the boy’s mother.

Miracle’s attorneys in both cases argued the tape should be suppressed from trial, but the judges in both cases ruled the tape was admissible.